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A typical Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) scenario involves several participants collaboratively training a machine learning model, where each party has different features for the same samples, with labels held exclusively by one party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenhao Jiang , Shaojing Fu , Yuchuan Luo , Lin Liu

Since Biggio et al. (2013) and Szegedy et al. (2013) first drew attention to adversarial examples, there has been a flood of research into defending and attacking machine learning models. However, almost all proposed attacks assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Jamie Hayes

Federated Learning enables collaborative training of a global model across multiple geographically dispersed clients without the need for data sharing. However, it is susceptible to inference attacks, particularly label inference attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zhixuan Ma , Haichang Gao , Junxiang Huang , Ping Wang

We study the problem of regression with interval targets, where only upper and lower bounds on target values are available in the form of intervals. This problem arises when the exact target label is expensive or impossible to obtain, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Rattana Pukdee , Ziqi Ke , Chirag Gupta

Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Bethge

Due to the increasing computational demand of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), companies and organizations have begun to outsource the training process. However, the externally trained DNNs can potentially be backdoor attacked. It is crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lu Pang , Tao Sun , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen

By injecting a small number of poisoned samples into the training set, backdoor attacks aim to make the victim model produce designed outputs on any input injected with pre-designed backdoors. In order to achieve a high attack success rate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Minlong Peng , Zidi Xiong , Quang H. Nguyen , Mingming Sun , Khoa D. Doan , Ping Li

Distributed learning paradigms such as federated learning often involve transmission of model updates, or gradients, over a network, thereby avoiding transmission of private data. However, it is possible for sensitive information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Trung Dang , Om Thakkar , Swaroop Ramaswamy , Rajiv Mathews , Peter Chin , Françoise Beaufays

Few-shot learners aim to recognize new categories given only a small number of training samples. The core challenge is to avoid overfitting to the limited data while ensuring good generalization to novel classes. Existing literature makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Aditya Bharti , N. B. Vineeth , C. V. Jawahar

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to model stealing attacks, which allows a data-limited adversary with no knowledge of the training dataset to clone the functionality of a target model, just by using black-box query access. Such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K Qureshi

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) threaten the privacy of machine learning models by revealing whether a specific data point was used during training. Existing MIAs often rely on impractical assumptions such as access to public datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Abdullah Caglar Oksuz , Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday

We consider the task of training classifiers without labels. We propose a weakly supervised method---adversarial label learning---that trains classifiers to perform well against an adversary that chooses labels for training data. The weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, machine learning emerges as a key technology characterized by its vast potential and inherent risks. The stability and reliability of these models are important, as they are frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai , Takeshi Saitoh

Machine learning models using transaction records as inputs are popular among financial institutions. The most efficient models use deep-learning architectures similar to those in the NLP community, posing a challenge due to their…

Through using only a well-trained classifier, model-inversion (MI) attacks can recover the data used for training the classifier, leading to the privacy leakage of the training data. To defend against MI attacks, previous work utilizes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiong Peng , Feng Liu , Jingfen Zhang , Long Lan , Junjie Ye , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

There has been recently a growing interest in studying adversarial examples on natural language models in the black-box setting. These methods attack natural language classifiers by perturbing certain important words until the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

Adversarial examples are important for understanding the behavior of neural models, and can improve their robustness through adversarial training. Recent work in natural language processing generated adversarial examples by assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yotam Gil , Yoav Chai , Or Gorodissky , Jonathan Berant

In this study, we analyze model inversion attacks with only two assumptions: feature vectors of user data are known, and a black-box API for inference is provided. On the one hand, limitations of existing studies are addressed by opting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xingyang Ni , Heikki Huttunen , Esa Rahtu

This paper studies physical consequences of unobservable false data injection (FDI) attacks designed only with information inside a sub-network of the power system. The goal of this attack is to overload a chosen target line without being…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Jiazi Zhang , Zhigang Chu , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

Deep models have shown their vulnerability when processing adversarial samples. As for the black-box attack, without access to the architecture and weights of the attacked model, training a substitute model for adversarial attacks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wenxuan Wang , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Shouhong Ding , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue